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== [[Literature]] ==
* The plot of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]'' revolves around golems creating {{spoiler|a "king" golem. It doesn't go so well.}}
* The eponymous (and autonomous) spaceships of [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''[[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]]'' series.
* The Hypotheticals from Robert Charles Wilson's novels ''Spin'' and ''Axis'' are of the Von Neumann type seen below
* The short Novel ''Model II'' by [[Philip K. Dick]] has a handful of US Marines find out what has been happening since they gave the deadly robots built to fight off the new URSS the capability to reproduce simply because they were so dangerous nobody wanted to work on them anymore. It's not pleasant.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* There's a ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' example, when the android Data creates its own android offspring, Lal.
* Cylons in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]].'' It didn't turn out well for them, either.
* The imaginatively-named Replicators of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* A ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' strip shows a couple of scientists coming to the conclusion that we are in a simulated reality. The last panel has a pair of alien scientists celebrating that our universe broke the record for how long it took a simulated reality to moon them.
* ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'s'' Mozart Boids (robot birds) are this.
* [[Stanislaw Lem]]'s "constructors" (Mortal Engines ([[Mortal Engines|not that one]]), ''[[The Cyberiad (Literature)|The Cyberiad]]'').
* The Dingbots from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' can create other Dingbots, but each successive generation is stupider and weaker. There are only about three originals ("Queenie Dingbot", "Prime A", and "Prime B") from which the best can be made directly.
* Similarly, in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' the [[Golem|golems]] and then robots continued manufacturing more of themselves after their creator's death. Because many of his [[Super Prototype|initial designs]] were beyond their understanding, subsequent generations were greatly simplified.
* Acibek in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle For Hire'' created his replacement before his [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* In ''[[Spacetrawler]]'', this is how the Mihrrgoots mastered [[Nanomachines|nanotechnology]].
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